Comrade Sosnovskii!

I received your letter regarding Yezhov.

I very much doubt whether we can allocate 1-1½ thousand workers and employees, 1¼-1½ million rubles (Soviet) per month.

Hardly.

I think: work out bonuses for rapid unloading of warehouse stocks in production enterprises (state factories, mills, sovkhozes, etc.).

Yezhov should advance your remaining proposals (and send me a copy).

A precise and concise draft.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

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Written 22 October 1921

First published in 1928

in Lenin Miscellany VIII

Printed from typescript